Terms of Service

These terms cover your use of the CloakFeed app and this website. They are short because the product is: there is no account to govern, no subscription to bill and no data of yours in our custody.

Last updated 22 August 2026

The short version. CloakFeed is licensed to you, not sold. It runs entirely on your device, so what it holds is yours to keep and yours to back up. Use it with mailboxes and content you are entitled to use. It comes without warranty, and our liability is limited to what you paid — which is nothing.

1. Agreement

By installing or using the CloakFeed application (“the app”) or this website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app. If you are using it on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these Terms for it.

2. Licence

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on devices you own or control, for your own reading. You may not sell, rent, sublicense or redistribute the app, and you may not reverse-engineer, decompile or attempt to derive source code from it except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable where you live. All rights not granted here are reserved. CloakFeed, its name and its logo remain ours.

3. Your content stays yours

Feeds you follow, files you import, mail you sync, notes and highlights you write, and everything else the app stores remain entirely yours. The app keeps them on your device; we receive no copy and claim no rights over them. We therefore grant no licence over your content to anyone, because none is needed.

The corollary is that you are responsible for your own backups. There is no server-side copy, so a lost, wiped, reset or broken device takes your library with it unless you have exported it from Account › Export. Uninstalling the app deletes its data permanently.

4. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the app to:

access a mailbox or account you are not authorised to access, or use credentials that are not yours;
request feeds in a manner intended to overload, disrupt or circumvent the access controls of a publisher’s service;
reproduce or redistribute publisher content beyond what copyright law, fair use or fair dealing, or the publisher’s own licence allows; or
break any law applicable to you.

5. Third-party services and content

The app fetches content from feeds, image hosts and mail providers you choose. Those services are operated by other people under their own terms and privacy policies, and their content belongs to its publishers. We do not host, endorse, moderate or take responsibility for it, and a feed that breaks, moves, blocks the app or shuts down is outside our control.

Connecting a Gmail or iCloud mailbox is subject to Google’s or Apple’s terms as well as these. App-specific passwords must be generated by you, for your own account, and can be revoked by you at any time. Managed and corporate accounts frequently cannot issue app passwords at all; that restriction comes from the provider, not from us.

6. Price and store terms

The app is currently free of charge and carries no advertising. If paid features are ever introduced, their price and terms will be stated before purchase and existing installs will not be silently changed. Distribution through Google Play or the App Store is also subject to that store’s terms, and any purchase made through a store is refunded under that store’s policy, not ours.

7. Availability and changes

The app runs on your device, so it keeps working whether or not we do — but we make no promise of continued updates, of compatibility with future operating-system versions, or of any particular feature remaining. We may change, suspend or discontinue features in new versions. You are free to stay on the version you have.

8. No warranty

The app and this website are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, that imports or syncs will capture every message, or that stored data will be preserved through device failure, OS upgrade, or reinstallation.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for loss of data, loss of reading history, or loss of profits, arising out of your use of or inability to use the app. Our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the app is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for it in the twelve months before the claim, or USD 10.

10. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us against claims arising from your use of the app in breach of these Terms or in breach of the rights of a third party, including a mail provider or content publisher.

11. Termination

You may end this agreement at any time by uninstalling the app. The licence in section 2 ends with it; sections 3, 8, 9, 10 and 12 survive. Because we hold no account, there is nothing for us to suspend or close on our side.

12. Governing law and your local rights

CloakFeed is available worldwide, and these Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the developer is established, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Nothing in these Terms removes mandatory consumer-protection rights you have under the law of the country where you live — including statutory guarantees, refund rights, and the right to bring proceedings in your local courts where that law provides for it. Where a provision of these Terms conflicts with such a right, that right prevails and the rest of these Terms stay in force.

13. Changes to these Terms

If these Terms change, the date at the top changes with them. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not, uninstall the app.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms: privacy@cloakfeed.com. How the app handles data is described in the Privacy Policy.